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Russian Skater Kamila Valieva Caught Doping. So Putin Threatens to Invade Ukraine?

Saturday, February 12, 2022 at 4:36 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Russia state-sanctioned doping That Russia runs a state-sanctioned doping program to enhance the performance of its athletes is an open secret. I decried this phenomenon in the blog post “In Putin’s Russia Even Athletics Is a Criminal (Doping) Enterprise” on November 9, 2015.  Therefore, nobody should be surprised that Kamila Valieva has the women’s figure skating competition embroiled… Read more.

The Americas: China Encroaching, Migrants Caravanning, US Retreating, CARICOM Flailing, Venezuela Failing, Russia Reclaiming… It’s All a Trumpian Mess!

Monday, April 1, 2019 at 8:04 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

[Note: I have written 4,135 commentaries on this weblog over the past 15 years. What follows is the longest by far … Reports are that even a 33-character tweet tests the attention span of most people these days. Therefore, I fully appreciate how daring (or foolish) it is to publish this 21,000-character commentary. And no,… Read more.